Pershing County emergency services leaders sounded the alarm last week due to a decline in volunteers responding to emergency calls. A few of the older volunteers, retired from daytime jobs, respond to most of the daytime calls according to Lovelock Fire Chief Rodney Wilox. Many of the Lovelock Volunteer Fire Department’s younger members have out-of-town jobs, or even in-town jobs, that make it difficult for them to respond as needed to medical and fire emergencies, Wilcox said. This has become a problem across the county at the three other volunteer fire and
ambulance departments in Rye Patch, Imlay and Grass Valley where many of those volunteers also work out of town for the mines, hospitals, the county or other employers.